Re: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 11:38:10AM +1100, Chris Collins wrote:
> LILO in the MBR is no more or less secure than the DOS MBR or the MBR
> that debian installs.
I agree. My comment wasn't about security; in general, I think it is
more convenient to put LILO in the root's boot sector than in the MBR.
For one thing, if you install any other operating systems, all you need
to do to get LILO back is change your active partition. No boot floppies
required.
I actually consider MBR to be a feature. For some it's a risk; remove
it and be happy.. no need to force those settings on the rest of us.
cheers
Hamish
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